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== =__The 4th Amendment__= By: Alex, Kevin, and Daniel

__Answer:__ The fourth amendment was created to secure the right of citizens to resist unreasonable searches without search warrants.
 * Question: Why was the Amendment created?**

__Answer:__ James Madison.
 * Question: Who wrote the amendment?**

__Answer:__ A police officer breaks into someone's house and starts searching around without a search warrant or a probable cause.
 * Question: What is an example of this issue?**

__Answer:__ No, locker searches do not go against the fourth amendment because your locker is part of school property and is not your property. A teacher is not allowed to search your locker but a school administrator is allowed to conduct a search.
 * Question: Do locker searches go against the 4th Amendment?**

__Answer:__ This amendment was created to solve the problem of police officiers or any other government officcial from searching someone's house without a reasonable cause or a warrant.
 * Question: What problem was it supposed to solve?**

__Answer:__ The 4th amendment was proposed on September 25, 1789 and was ratified on December 15, 1791. ====
 * Question: When was the 4th Amendment ratified and proposed?**

Kevin's Curent Event:
My current event is about how the government decided that every laptop that comes into the country is free to inspect. They can even inspect the laptop if they don't find anything suspicious about the owner. The government has made this decision because there was much dispute over laptops being taken away last year. My opinion is that this is wrong because if they don't find anything suspicous with the person then they don't have a probable or reasonable cause for searching the laptop.

Daniel's Current Event:
My current is about how NASA is making its workers fill out background checks. These background checks require personal information that have nothing to do with wether or not a worker is qualified to do their job. This goes against the 4th amendment because the employer NASA has no probable cause. In my personal opinion once an employer starts to ask personal questions, they have violated the 4th amendment. NASA is also questioning senior members of its program. I got my current event from msn news.

Alex's Current Event:
My current event is about how the state of Maine has passed a law stating that blood tests are mandatory in fatal accidents. In some cases people are claimimg that admitting the blood tests as evidence in a trials violates the fourth amendment. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court says that if the protection requirements are met than it is not unreasonable and would not violate the 4th amendment if the results of a blood test were used as evidence in court. My opinion is that drinking and driving is illegal so it is reasonable to use the results of the blood test as evidence as long as some requirements are still met.

__Fun Facts__

 * You need a search warrant in order to search someone's house.
 * After 9/11, Congress passed the Patriot act which made it easier for government officials to find terroists and track criminals.
 * Electronic eavesdroppong and surveillance requires a warrant, but only in places where a person expects privacy.

__Links__
[|4th Amendment Video] [|4th Amendment Video#2] [|Information about the 4th Amendment]




 * A picture of a Search Warrant**